Summer of '42 (1971)
19/04/1971
Comedy, Drama, Romance
1h 43m
- 67% (149 votes)
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In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"
Overview
Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.
- Robert MulliganDirector
- Herman RaucherWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Keywords
- island
- beach
- sexual frustration
- age difference
- obsession
- world war ii
- sand
- coming of age
- summer vacation
- beach house
- first love
- older woman younger man relationship
- sexual awakening
- 1940s
- summer cottage
- soldier's wife
Top Billed Cast
Jennifer O'Neill
Dorothy
Gary Grimes
Hermie
Jerry Houser
Oscy
Oliver Conant
Benjie
Katherine Allentuck
Aggie
Christopher Norris
Miriam
Lou Frizzell
Druggist
Walter Scott
Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)
Maureen Stapleton
Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
Robert Mulligan
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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